Conference Agenda

Session
WG2: Source apportionment of PM
Time:
Wednesday, 03/Sept/2025:
1:15pm - 2:45pm

Session Chair: Maria Chiara Bove
Session Chair: Franco Lucarelli
Location: Room Caravaggio


Presentations
1:15pm - 1:30pm
WE3-3: 1

Year-Long Source Apportionment of PM2.5 in Delhi: Insights from One of the World's Most Polluted Environments

Mohd Faisal1,2, Ajit Kumar3, Umer Ali2, Mayank Kumar3, Vikram Singh2, Andre Prevot1

1Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Aargau 5232 Switzerland; 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India; 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India



1:30pm - 1:45pm
WE3-3: 2

Chemical Composition and Source Attribution of PM10 and PM2.5 in an Urban Arid Region: Natural and Anthropogenic Contributions

M. Rami Alfarra, Shamjad P. Moosakutty, Azhar Siddique

Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar



1:45pm - 2:00pm
WE3-3: 3

Characterizing aerosol composition, size distribution and optical properties in the Western Italian Alps: insights into pollution sources and transport processes

Eleonora Favaro1, Elena Barbaro2, Henri Diémoz3, Stefano Bertinetti4, Mery Malandrino4, Alexis Foretier5, Silvia Ferrarese5, Annachiara Bellini3, Michele Freppaz6, Raffaella Balestrini7, Mara Bortolini1, Andrei Munteanu1, Stefano Frassati1, Matteo Marafante4, Eros Mariani8, Paolo Bonasoni9, Francesco Petracchini10, Luigi Mazari10, Antonello Provenzale11, Stefania Gilardoni2, Andrea Gambaro1, Matteo Feltracco1

1Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice 30172, Italy; 2Insitute of Polar Sciences, National Research Council (CNR-ISP), Venice 30172, Italy; 3Atmosphere and Solar Radiation Department, Environmental Protection Agency (ARPA) of the Aosta Valley, Saint-Christophe 11020, Italy; 4Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, Turin 10125, Italy; 5Department of Physics, University of Turin, Turin 10125, Italy; 6Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Turin 10124, Italy; 7Institute of Water Research, National Research Council (CNR-IRSA), Brugherio 20861, Italy; 8Milan Research Area, National Research Council, Milan 20133, Italy; 9Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council (CNR-ISAC), Bologna 40129, Italy; 10Department of Earth System Sciences and Environmental Technologies, National Research Council (CNR- DSSTTA), Rome 00185, Italy; 11Institute of Geosciences and Georesources, National Research Council, (CNR-IGG), Turin 10125, Italy



2:00pm - 2:15pm
WE3-3: 4

Chemical-physics PM characterization in Milan: the role of different primary and secondary sources

Cristina Colombi, Beatrice Biffi, Eleonora Cuccia, Umberto Dal Santo

ARPA Lombardia, Italy



2:15pm - 2:30pm
WE3-3: 5

Size-resolved source apportionment of aerosol particles at two contrasting sites in North Africa

Nabil Deabji1, Khanneh Wadinga Fomba1, Laurent Poulain1, Abdelwahid Mellouki2, Hartmut Herrmann1

1Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Germany (TROPOS); 2Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Lot 660 Ben Guerir, 43150, Morocco



2:30pm - 2:45pm
WE3-3: 6

Supervised Regression Models for Aerosol Source Identification: A Scalable Approach for European Sites

Andrei-Valentin Dandocsi1,2, Jeni Vasilescu1, Jean-Eudes Petit3, Mohamed Gherras4, Gang Chen5, Kaspar Rudolf Dällenbach6

1National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics - INOE 2000, Romania; 2UNST Politehnica of Bucharest, Bulevardul Iuliu Maniu 1-3, Bucharest, 061071, Bucharest, Romania; 3Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CNRS-CEA-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif- sur-Yvette, France; 4INERIS, Verneuil en Halatte, France; 5MRC Centre for Environment and Health,Environmental Research Group, Imperial College London, London, W12 0BZ, UK; 6Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland